Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-06-09
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The Emperor of Japan has beer
making tour of the chief cities of his
kingdom.
| The palace of the Mikado has been
lighted for some time by electricity,
and the Edison Company has closed q
contract to illuminate the city Of
| Toxic.
| The merchants of China are re-
| ported to be well satisfied with last
years business Dealers in tea, silk
and white manufacturers have all
made money.-M o. Times Democrat.
"A tablet commemorating the fact
that Qneen Victoria is of Huguenot
descent, the Queen of George L hav-
Ing been the granddaughter of a
French Protestant, has been placed in
the Huguenot chapel In the crypt Of
Canterbury Cathedral.
Lord Clifford, an ex-judge of the
Court of Sessions, Edinburgh. who died
recently. has bequeathed ESQ, 900 to
found National Theology lectureships
at the four Scottish universities. Edin-
burgh gets f25, 900; Glasgow and Aber-
deem, ego, 600, and st. Andrews, ELS,
OOO.-M Y Witness.
Vaccination is to be enforced
among all the workmen employed on
the coming Paris Exhibition. Each
man will be vaecinated as soon as en-
gagged, and the government will not
only pay for the necessary medical
Int h. -
wages should his arm become bad and
prevent him from working. ..
-Viscount de Penaudiere, journal
istic Frenchman, claims to have
papers in his possession in the hand
writing of Napoleon I'LL, showing that
the emperor contemplated marrying
the Prince Imperial to an Orleans
princess, thus settling the French sue
cession in the same way that the En-
glsh concluded the War of the Roses.
Boston Budget.
According to the Dia7'io Romano
it is now precisely 2,641 years since
Mr.. Romulus, G, E., first laid out the
streets and lots of Rome. and the event
is still celebrated in the Eternal City
by the illumination of the Coliseum
and the Forum, and by banquets at
which the memory of the distinguished
citizen is appropriately disposed of in
silence. Y Ss1n
MISREPRESENTATION a little town in
Saxony, is the place where musical in
struments are made, more especially
violins, to which latter it owes the
name of Saxon Cremona. Its manu-
features comprise nearly the whole
field of instruments, such as guitars,
flutes, clarionets Gin brass and German
silver,) accordions, concertinas, zith-
ers, bass-viols. violincellos.-Phi!a
delphia Press.
Pope Leo's famous collection of
laces has received an important addi-
ton. Some wealthy Catholics at
Venice have presented to him set of
lace which they have caused to be
executed at the late schools of Burano.
The design is copied from the famous
Rezzonico set, which was made for
Clement XIII by the Venetian nuns,
and which now forms part of the treas
ure of the House of Savoy and is oc-
casionally worn by Queen Margaret. -
Chicago Herald.
Royal yachts cost high in England.
The original cost of the Victoria and
Albert was about f136 O00 and she
has since had spent on her over $780,
BOO. The Osborne's original cost was
about f1O6. 90, and she has had about
f112,OOO expended on her. The AL
berta's original cost was EFT. 900, with
a subsequent expenditure of EOS, 900.
The Films original cost was f6, 900,
the subsequent expenditure being over
f40, 900. Besides these interesting
items. the annual pay of the officers
and crews of the royal yachts is close |
upon ESQ. 000.-N Y San.